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CoREOPSIS DIVERSIFOLIA. WVARIOUS-LEAVED 
Coreopsis. 
KEKE KEKE KEKE EER EERE EK 
Class and Order. 
SynGENESIA F'RUSTRANEA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Composirz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Receptaculum paleaceum. Achenia compressa, emargi- 
nata. Pappus bicornis vel obsoletus. Involucrum duplex ; 
utrumque polyphyllum. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Coreopsis * diversifolia ; annua, hirsuta vel glabra, ramosa, 
foliis ternatis pinnatis etiam bipinnatis, foliolis rhom- 
beo-rotundatis obovatis obtusis integerrimis, pedun- 
culis elongatis glaberrimis unifloris, involucro utroque 
monophyllo suboctopartito, radiis apice 4-fidis, ache- 
niis ovalibus muticis subincurvis hince disco plano 
margine incrassato. 
Coreopsis auriculata; var. diversifolia. Elliott, Corol. v. 
. 2. p. 437. 
Sent from Texas by the late Mr. Drummonp, who was 
much struck with its beauty, and who gathered it, not only 
upon the coast at Brazosia, but in the interior of the coun- 
try round San Felipe. Seeds which arrived in February of 
the past year (1835) produced plants, which displayed their 
large and bright orange-coloured flowers with a dark eye 
in the open air, in the month of July. So that it promises 
to be a hardy and most desirable annual. Its nearest 
affinity, 
* From xopss, a bug, and obi, a resemblance, from a fancied likeness in 
the fruit to that insect. 
